FC Gueugnon
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| Surname | Football Club de Gueugnon | ||
| Seat | Gueugnon , France | ||
| founding | 1940 | ||
| Website | fcgueugnon.com | ||
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| Venue | Stade Jean Laville | ||
| Places | 13,872 | ||
| league | CFA2 | ||
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The Football Club de Gueugnon is a French football club from the Burgundian municipality of Gueugnon , in the Saône-et-Loire department near Montceau-les-Mines and Autun .
history
FC was created in 1940 through the merger of two local clubs. The association is also known as les Forgerons (German: "the smithy"), which alludes to the economic structure of the region and the support provided by a local metalworking company. The club colors are blue and yellow; the league team plays in the Stade Jean Laville , which has a capacity of 13,872 seats (with only 8,500 residents of Gueugnons). The expansion of the stadium to 17,500 seats, which had begun, was only half finished in 2011, and the continuation has since been discontinued.
Club president was Guy Vairelles, whose son Tony took over the majority of the shares in the club in 2009 and worked there as a sports director; the first team was last coached by Serge Romano . At the beginning of April 2011 a court liquidated the association due to over-indebtedness; the first team has not played the remaining third division games. The re-establishment of the club had to start again in the sixth class Division d'Honneur . In view of the facts that Tony Vairelles refused to make any further personal, financial commitment, was not able to bring in new donors, had fallen out with the community and that in 2010/11 also two "obviously not third-division suitable members of the Vairelles clan" in the first team were called, France Football spoke of the FC Gueugnon had degenerated "into a private project in the service of a family". Vairelles, on the other hand, saw “no responsibility”.
At the end of 2014, AS Saint-Étienne entered into a partnership with FC Gueugnon, which should primarily serve the Forgerons' youth development and enable joint marketing campaigns.
League affiliation
Gueugnon had only been playing professionally since 1987, but was quite successful in the amateur camp and popular in the region. The first class ( Division 1 , renamed Ligue 1 since 2002 ) only achieved the FC in the 1995/96 season , but won the league cup in 2000 as a second division and even took part in the UEFA Cup . After decades of second class, Gueugnon was relegated to the national in 2008 . In the 2014/15 season, the team is represented in the fifth division (CFA2) .
successes
- Participation in Division 1 : so far only placement in the first division was table rank 18 (1995/96)
- League Cup Winner : 2000
- French amateur champion : 1947, 1952
Known players past and present
literature
- Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999 - Volume 1 (A-Mo) ISBN 2-913146-01-5 , Volume 2 (Mu-W) ISBN 2-913146-02-3